ok, i just installed mandrake LE2005 PPC on an ibook and the install went fine, I installed KDE/GNOME and when the it boots it starts in command prompt, what must i do to load a gui? I would like to load KDE because i'm used to working with it. any help would be greatly appreciated!

startx will get you into the default GUI (probably KDE)

You can also:
startx /usr/bin/startkde
startx /usr/bin/startgnome

KC

thanks a million, but is there any way i can set it up to load a gui from boot?

You will have to change your inittab file from a root console it's probably set to 3 you'll want to change it to 5:

Open Konsole from KDE type:

$ su <enter>
PW etc...

# emacs /etc/inittab

--SAMPLE--
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrakelinux are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault: <====[Change this to 5]

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit


Save file and reboot

KC

its already set to 5, and it boots to commandprompt

Is there an error which causes the Display Manager to not start? Assuming you're using Mandriva, you would be using the Mandrake Display Manager -- is that installed properly? Is there an error in the startup of this Display manager which causes the computer to start in command prompt mode?

Please post any error messages, and the output of 'dmesg.'

Hopefully this will be just an xorg.conf problem.

display manager is installed and gives teh OK at boot

Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0400000)
Linux version 2.6.11-6mdk (spturtle@kalinda.cjw.nep) (gcc version 3.4.3 (Mandrak
elinux 10.2 3.4.3-6mdk)) #1 Sat Mar 26 03:36:44 CET 2005
Found UniNorth memory controller & host bridge, revision: 192
Mapped at 0xfdf00000
Found a Pangea mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xfde80000
Processor NAP mode on idle enabled.
PowerMac motherboard: iBook 2
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf0000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf2000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf4000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0
via-pmu: Server Mode is disabled
PMU driver 2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c
nvram: Checking bank 0...
nvram: gen0=1266, gen1=1265
nvram: Active bank is: 0
nvram: OF partition at 0x210
nvram: XP partition at 0xffffffff
nvram: NR partition at 0xffffffff
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
DMA zone: 65536 pages, LIFO batch:16
Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 ro resume=/dev/hda7
PowerMac using OpenPIC irq controller at 0x80040000
OpenPIC Version 1.2 (4 CPUs and 64 IRQ sources) at fc62f000
OpenPIC timer frequency is 4.160000 MHz
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
GMT Delta read from XPRAM: 0 minutes, DST: on
time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.640000 MHz
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
pmac_zilog: i2c-modem detected, id: 1
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 254784k available (2476k kernel code, 1052k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
AGP special page: 0xcffff000
Calibrating delay loop... 995.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=497664)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 176k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Registering openpic with sysfs...
Thermal assist unit using timers, shrink_timer: 2000 jiffies
Registering PowerMac CPU frequency driver
Low: 400 Mhz, High: 499 Mhz, Boot: 499 Mhz
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(2212161384.100:0): initialized
inotify device minor=63
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087)
aty128fb: Invalid ROM signature e7e3 should be 0xaa55
aty128fb: BIOS not located, guessing timings.
aty128fb: Rage128 LF M3 AGP [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Registered "ati" backlight controller, level: 15/15
fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on Rage128 LF M3 AGP
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0x000a0000
fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1
pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
ttyS0 at MMIO 0x80013020 (irq = 22) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Internal modem
ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 23) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de) and petero2@telia.com
MacIO PCI driver attached to Pangea chipset
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
adb: starting probe task...
adb devices: [2]: 2 c3 [3]: 3 1 [7]: 7 1f
ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1
Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI.
input: ADB keyboard on adb2:2.c3/input
input: ADB Powerbook buttons on adb7:7.1f/input
ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 4 (trackpad)
input: ADB mouse on adb3:3.01/input
adb: finished probe task...
ide0: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-4 controller, bus ID 2, irq 19
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: TOSHIBA MK1017GAP, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2
hdb: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
ide0 at 0xd100e000-0xd100e007,0xd100e160 on irq 19
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB), CHS=19485/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for md/0
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k init 4k chrp 8k prep
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:18.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ohci_hcd 0001:10:18.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0001:10:18.0: irq 27, pci mem 0x80081000
ohci_hcd 0001:10:18.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:19.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ohci_hcd 0001:10:19.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0001:10:19.0: irq 28, pci mem 0x80080000
ohci_hcd 0001:10:19.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
SCSI subsystem initialized
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Adding 1081100k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected Apple UniNorth/Pangea chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 204M
agpgart: configuring for size idx: 4
agpgart: AGP aperture is 16M @ 0x0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[40] MMIO=[f5000000-f50007ff] Max
Packet=[2048]
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000393fffe4a66c6]
eth1394: $Rev: 1224 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski
@gnu.org>, et al)
airport 0.13e (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
airport: Airport at physical address 80030000
eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:0019
eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.25
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:131:28
eth1: Station name "HERMES I"
eth1: ready
airport: card registered for interface eth1
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2048 buckets, 16384 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
IN from bad port 3f4 at d1a17260
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
IN from bad port 3f4 at d1a17260
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2048 buckets, 16384 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
Found KeyWest i2c on "uni-n", 2 channels, stepping: 4 bits
Found KeyWest i2c on "mac-io", 1 channel, stepping: 4 bits
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.7
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.7
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.5
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02e8954(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device cfeb3000(sit0)
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
[drm] Initialized r128 2.5.0 20030725 on minor 0:
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:0b.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:10.0 into 1x mode
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:0b.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:10.0 into 1x mode

I see no errors, but then again... i r still a schn00b